I just received a PM from one of our members who wishes to remain anonymous. He has a major problem and he needs our help comming up with a solution.
(I told him that this is nothing to be embarrassed about--stuff like this happens to me all the time
, but I will respect his privacy and post this for him)
I feel that this is a problem that many of us will run into sooner or later, so by posting here we might be help him/her and also other members who might end up with the same problem.
THE PROBLEM:
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Hi!
I've been visiting UTC for years but this is the first time I'm actually sending a message. I'm not aware if this will be posted but I hope not because I do not want to broadcast my ignorance.
Anyway, here's my problem. I would greatly appreciate the help.
I recently purchased a new housing/casing for my pc. I have average experience in hardware installations so I transferred all the components from the old shell to the new one myself.
After re-assembling and re-booting, windows ME performed a scandisk. Having encountered scandisk on several occassions, I thought nothing of it. After a few error messages, I got alarmed and clicked on "exit". The pc re-booted itself but windows ME did not start anymore.
I tried to re-boot from an emergency disk. It told me that the hard disk cannot be detected.
I tried scandisk. It said it cannot examine the drive.
I tried fdisk, it said that there was no hard disk present.
I checked cmos, cannot auto-detect so I edited the CHS according to the figures on the hard disk.
The hdd contains irreplacable pics of my baby when he was just minutes-old and a lot of other very important files. I would really like to recover them. The hard disk is just secondary.
I have gotten the impression that you welcome these types of problems. I hope you can advise me on what I can do to recover my files.
thank you,
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OK Folks, He/she really needs our help on this one. Anyone come accross this problem before??? how did you solve it??
I am guessing that his master boot record is messed up/missing-- how can we replace it without a reformat?? better yet, how can we get his computer to see his harddrive again??
I am trying to locate a recovery program for him/her to try...any suggestions??? and how do you get the recovery program to work when the harddrive does not show up??